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In April 2014, approximately 2,000 Rialto Unified eighth graders were given an English Language Arts assignment in which they were asked to argue for or against the reality of the Holocaust, and given pages from a Holocaust denial website as a source. After an international outcry, the Southern California school district apologized and said it would not repeat the assignment. In June, this newspaper obtained copies of many of the essays, with the students’ names redacted.